ABSTRACT
Joseph Tommasi was a talented neo-Nazi organizer based in the Los Angeles area who left the National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP) in 1974 and founded his own group, the National Socialist Liberation Front (NSLF). It aped its contemporaries in the New Left. The NSLF broke with other neo-Nazis by accepting the counterculture’s approach to drugs, clothes, and sexuality. Politically, it used New Left slogans and strategies and fashioned itself after terrorist groups that came out of it, like the Symbionese Liberation Army and Weather Underground. Tommasi started the original publication named Siege but in 1975 was killed by an NSWPP member during an argument. James Mason was deeply influenced by Tommasi’s approach and joined the group shortly after his death.
